"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."- Alfred Korzybski
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Sunday Quote: On Thinking
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."- Alfred Korzybski
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2 comments :
This doesn't invalidate anything Korzybski says, but his quote is nearly the same as Henri Poincare's on page 1 of "Science and Hypothesis” thirty or more years earlier:
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions, each of which absolves us of our responsibility for thinking."
I think I like Poincare's better.
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